about the "future"
by an organisation whose corporate website and developer support site
fail to implement some very basicwebstandards and best practices.
Validating your pages against your declared DTD, Providing RSS
Feeds and SEO friendly URLs are just a few extremely basic items
that a leading ECM vendor should take the time to implement. Oh,
and you can't search the developer site for key TeamSite
terminology like DCR, XML and TPL because they are too short.
They've been aware..." at the next
gearup, twice the percentage of any other option.Throughout the day I felt that the confidence of some of the
presenters bordered on arrogance we were told that "Interwoven
invented web content management" and there were constant

A while back I discussed the desire to have a document that
helped me to evaluate a web content management system from a
developer perspective. A few other people expressed interest in the
idea so I've published a very rough first draft here in case anyone
wishes to collaborate or provide any feedback.The document is intended to be a verbose specification of a
simple website to build in the CMS the functionality of which is
extremely common to most websites. The exercise itself should take
no more than a day and leave a developer with a good feel of how to
perform basic tasks such as create content types and templates. The
simplicity of the exercise is such that I'd expect any reasonable
developer to be able to sit in front

my productivity. Twitterfox – A Twitter client that sits in your browser bar displaying the number of unread Tweets. Clicking the icon opens up the UI overlaying the current web page that you are browsing. The UI allows you to do all the basic... Everyone knows about Firebug right? If not and you are a web developer, you are missing out and making your life much harder!Yslow is an add-on for firebug that analyses the download time of a webpage and gives you tips on how to improve. Test results are graded A-F and displayed in a very simple format. You can click on each test which takes you to a Yahoo page explaining the test in detail and the steps that can be taken to get a better grade and ultimately better page performance.Foxmarks

This post should be subtitled "or stop moaning".As a pre-cursor to the main content of my post a note to CSS
developers. Be careful what you set your heart upon.
If IE6 was banished/killed/gone what would differentiate you from
any other web... of IE6 too. Although I rarely get hands
on with browsers from day to day I have done in the past. I'm aware
of the frustrations and I think it is a completely legitimate
movement to get people to install modern standards compliant
browsers.I take... such time that you've communicated to
your customer your EOL plan. If you've never supported IE6 or are
some gimmicky web 2.0 site then I guess it is your call.Now for #3. We've seen a series of sites recently such as I dropped IE6, IE6 Update, IE6

out your CMS within my organisation, I have to
migrate all of my users to be stored in a database table in a
custom schema defined by your CMS.I'm trying to define the layout for a web page using your CMS
but your templating language is completely... to
install an ActiveX component.I've entered some standards compliant markup into your WYSIWYG
editor using the "source view" and it has "corrected it".Your CMS doesn't understand the extended character set of my
source document but when I paste

needs
updating and expanding upon a little.
We do web - applications and content. We are very good at
Interwoven (Autonomy) content management products and Umbraco. If
these technologies won't contain your application we'll work with
ASP.net or (PHP or Perl if you want) to create something that does.
Good quality graphic design and user experiences are very important
to us.
Here are some reasons that you should work with us:
1. 15 years experience. We've been building the web... wouldn't
deliver anything that didn't conform to current standards.
4. We don't do exploitation - Controversial subject this, but if
I offshore work I pay what I would pay someone in the UK to do the
job. I also believe in working 9-5 5 days a week

Visited: 17/02/2007
Three chilli rated
34 Greek Street, London, W1D 5DJ.
http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/restaurants/restaurant-7229.php
Another central venue, in the heart of Soho. The cafe interior
was pleasent, and this place had the first open Vietnamese kitchen
we'd seen.
The bowl was good, stock a little basic with more pork/spam than
beef.
Good for: Nice atmosphere, friendly staff.
Bad for: Pork-fest

Visited: 28/01/2007
Three and a half chilli rated
279 Mare St, Hackney, London, E8 3QE.
http://www.london-eating.co.uk/7084.htm
We are always a bit worried about Hybrid Vietnamese/Chinese
restaurants, but this place on Mare street was a good solid bowl,
and a welcome relief after our trip to Cambridge the night
before.
Good for: Basic, but solid performer.
Bad for: No herbs, beansprouts or chilli sauce. Slightly dodgy
beef.

Visited: 11/02/2007
Three chilli rated
34-36 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6QT.
http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/restaurants/restaurant-872.php
We were a little dubious about this venue. The name and the
ultra tourist location didn't quite ring true. Once seated, the
herbs were waiting on the counter and the chilli sauce was on the
tables.
The dish itself was Pho, as they didn't serve Hue style, and we
didn't have any real criticism. The stock was pretty basic which is
why we gave three chillis, but basically a tasty bowl.
Good for: Tourist location.
Bad for: Nothing really